You could practically hear the sound of 600 media reporters picking up their phones in response.

Then the music critic for The New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones fired back with, “These biweekly/monthly TNY rumors are total bullshit. Report it out, or shut the fuck up.”

He followed that up with the following: “The mags that got hit hardest are the ONES THAT DON’T EXIST ANYMORE. Seriously. This fear-mongering falling-sky shit is. Doing. No. Good.” And then yet another: “Didn’t mean to bark but it’s maddening to see conjecture being floated. When somebody catches fire or spills something on Si, I’ll tweet it.”

A few minutes later, we got New Yorker editor David Remnick on the phone (to, you know, “report it or…”) who hadn’t seen the post. “False. False. False. False. Just not true,” he told The Observer when told about it. When we asked him if there were any discussions about it, he said, “No.”

Minutes later, Ron Charles took down his original post (which still lives in this search), and replaced it with this: “A staff editor at the New Yorker assures me that TNY is not going bimonthly or monthly. ‘The idea has not been discussed.'”